17-year-old Nicolas is going through a difficult phase since his parents’ divorce. He’s started lying and become listless, skipping school and locking himself away. He feels unable to live with his mother anymore, so maybe moving in with his father and his new family will help. A new school, a fresh start. But what if it doesn’t? What then?

As the family try to navigate Nicolas’s difficulties and his father attempts to reconnect with him, Zeller unflinchingly explores how those suffering often struggle to understand their own inner demons. A powerful examination of adolescence and the disruptive dynamics of family life.

When Judy was offered redundancy from a job she hates, she grabbed the chance to give her life a retro-rebrand and embrace a full-time role as a 1950s housewife. The fifties ideal of cocktails, circle skirts and devilled eggs might all seem like squeaky-clean good fun, but living a 21st century life in a bygone era isn’t as easy as it looks.

As Judy strives to be a domestic goddess, she finds herself increasingly clashing with the realities of modern life and the expectations of her marriage. A dark comedy about sex, gender roles, rebellion and cake from award-winning writer Laura Wade (Posh, Royal Court; Rivals, Disney+).

Adam is spending his gap-year backpacking overseas, but he’s gone missing in the Far East. At home, his mother and stepfather are stuck in limbo, agonising over the mystery of his disappearance – was in killed in a bomb explosion in Jakarta, or is there still hope he’s alive? Then, suddenly, six months after vanishing, their son seemingly reappears. But is he the real thing?

Northumberland-born Shelagh Stephenson is one of the country’s most acclaimed contemporary playwrights, and this psychological thriller is a powerful and unsettling study of parental grief, hope, and the lengths people will go to find the missing pieces of their lives.

In a remote Cornish railway station there's a legend of a phantom locomotive sweeping through the village leaving death in its wake. When a group of passengers miss the last connection of the night, they find themselves stranded in the gloomy station waiting room. Ignoring the ominous warnings of the Station Master, they decide to stay where they are until morning – with terrifying consequences.

This comedy-thriller by Arnold Ridley (best known for playing Private Godfrey in Dad’s Army) has been delighting and scaring audiences for over a hundred years, and is the perfect way to get in the mood for Halloween!

When a rebellious teenager runs away from home, she falls in with a crowd who seek to exploit her and lead her further astray. There’s no escape as she desperately tries to find her true self.

This new piece takes its inspiration from Ibsen’s dramatic poem ‘Peer Gynt’ which chronicles the epic journey of its title character from the Norwegian mountains to the North African desert and back. This reinterpretation by the talented Young People’s Theatre seeks to expose the madness of the modern world where superficiality and self-obsession run rife, and the truth depends on who is listening.

Join Sir Philip Bin as he recounts the tale of his youth – how he was sent to boarding school after his father was killed by penguins while on imperial business, then fled to London to make his fortune. Young Pip’s extraordinary adventures see him dodging dastardly villains, indulging in pulse-quickening romances, and deflecting disaster at every turn!

Based on the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, this chaotic caper is overflowing with hilarious one-liners, daft comedy and ridiculous melodrama. It’s the story Charles Dickens might have written after drinking too much gin …!

Midsummer. The residents of a remote fishing village prepare to re-enact an ancient legend. A new Daughter must be chosen to sail out with the boats and bless the waters, keeping them safe from the roaming pods of orcas for another year. Young Fan is desperate to be chosen. Her sister Maggie is desperate for her not to be. Because something happened to Maggie out there, but no one will admit it.

Winner of the 2016 Papatango New Writing Prize, Orca is an unnerving and bold exploration of the pressure to conform and what makes a community tolerate the unthinkable.

There’s no place like the People’s this Christmas for a wicked and wonderful Panto adventure!

Dorothy daydreams of a life away from her little farm in Kansas. When a terrible twister whirls her and her little dog Toto far away to the magical land of Oz, Glinda The Good sends them off down the yellow brick road to find The Wizard. But hot on Dorothy’s ruby heels is the Wicked Witch of the West!

With the help of a Scarecrow, a Tin Man and a Cowardly Lion, will Dorothy have the brains, heart and courage to save Oz and find her way home?

Main Stage
Tickets £16 / £13.50
Includes a Relaxed Performance on Tuesday 16th, 7pm

Hollywood comes to St Mary Mead when a glamorous American movie star moves into the village. When a cocktail party ends in a vicious death, it prompts Jane Marple, convalescing after an accident, to start sleuthing. The long list of suspects all have something to hide, and Miss Marple must use all of her wits to unravel a web of lies, tragedy and danger. But can she get to the truth before it’s too late?

Agatha Christie’s famous novel is a thrilling story of revenge and dark secrets, and this fresh adaptation by Rachel Wagstaff is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seats.

Mary Shelley: daughter of feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and political philosopher William Godwin; lover of Percy Bysshe Shelley; writer of ‘Frankenstein’. When sixteen year-old Mary elopes with married poet Shelley, the consequences for herself and her family are far reaching. In the aftermath of the scandal, Mary goes on to write a novel so radical that it changes the literary landscape forever.

This riveting drama is a vivid and provocative insight into the life and work of one of the most extraordinary women of the 19th century.